The stakes were high for the breakfast show, which has been commissioned to replace ‘Daybreak’ after it failed to charm viewers over its four year run, while Susanna Reid left her spot on ‘BBC Breakfast’ after 11 years to front ‘Good Morning Britain’.

Susanna Reid and the rest of the 'Good Morning Britain' team during Monday morning's launch show

Predictably, the good people of Twitter have all chimed in to deliver their verdict on the show’s first ever broadcast, and to say the reviews have been mixed would be an understatement.

The show took on a more news-based approach than its predecessor ‘Daybreak’, which was praised by some viewers...

Good Morning Britain. Very slick, very American. 100 times better than Daybreak #GMB